fast and curious

Thai's Teaser #50: Number Division

What? Puzzle #50 already?

Just two more and that's a year of brain teasers that bruised your brain, thrashed your thinker, numbed your noggin, or possibly frustrated you into throwing your computer into a particularly dirty trash can. It's not time to stop now! Forward, the Light Brigade!

Ready? I've divided the numbers from 0 to 9 into three buckets. Into which bucket does 10 go?

Bucket A: 0, 4, 5, 9

Bucket B: 1, 2, 6

Bucket C: 3, 7, 8

Ready for the answer?

I do like my "outside-the-box" thinking brain teasers, don't I? It's a problem, really, if you consider enjoying a particular kind of puzzle a problem. And I bet most normal people do.

Write them out, and you'll see it right away:

Bucket A: zero, four, five, nine

Bucket B: one, two, six

Bucket C: three, seven, eight

The buckets have numbers with 4, 3, and 5 letters in English, respectively. And that means 10 ("ten") goes into Bucket B.